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Dr. Christiane Rahe serves as Professor and Head of the Section for Battery Modeling, Analytics and Lifetime Prediction at the Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives (ISEA), RWTH Aachen University. She holds the Chair for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage Systems and directs research from her office at Campus-Boulevard 89, 52074 Aachen, where she leads critical investigations into next-generation battery technologies.
Her research program centers on Battery Modeling, Battery Analytics, and Lifetime Prediction within electrochemical energy storage systems. Specializing in lithium-ion and sodium-ion battery degradation mechanisms, she employs multimodal approaches combining electrical diagnostics, post-mortem analysis, and advanced imaging techniques to unravel complex failure modes including lithium plating, gas evolution, and mechanical deformation. Her work bridges fundamental electrochemistry with practical automotive and grid-storage applications.
Analysis of her 2019-2025 publications reveals consistent focus on battery aging phenomena across multiple dimensions: calendar aging in silicon-anode cells, electrolyte volume effects on cyclic degradation, pressure-dependent voltage-strain relationships, and sodium-ion battery failure mechanisms. Her research demonstrates exceptional methodological diversity—spanning nanoscale X-ray imaging, optical electrode analysis, and computational modeling—while maintaining strong industry relevance through automotive battery testing.
At ISEA, Professor Rahe's section forms a critical component of RWTH Aachen's expanding battery research ecosystem, which includes the new M.Sc. program in Battery Science and Technology and the CARL Center for analytics. Her team collaborates extensively on projects like the 5 MW Battery Storage facility and contributes to flagship events including the Advanced Battery Power Conference.
